> On Jun 20, 2017, at 11:30, Thomas Scharkowski <t.scharkow...@t-online.de> > wrote: > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >>> On Jun 19, 2017, at 22:04, Thomas Scharkowski <t.scharkow...@t-online.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >> <snip> >>> >>>> We haven’t done anything to change the internals of how the buildlock >>>> system works, either. That’s what’s failing here, because the control >>>> file isn’t being created. You’re sure that you literally have changed >>>> _nothing_? You didn’t install any third-party software at all? The only >>>> reasons I can think of for this to have worked at one point and then to >>>> fail would be: >>>> 1) Changing the behavior of a system utility, e.g. by having a third-party >>>> executable of the same name but with different behavior. >>>> 2) No disk space. >>>> 3) Incorrect permissions in the fink.build directory that somehow don’t >>>> allow the control file to be created. >>>> $ ls -ld /sw/src/fink.build/ >>>> drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 680 Jun 19 07:00 /sw/src/fink.build/ >>> >>> >>> for $ ls -ld /sw/src/fink.build/ I get: >>> >>> thomas$ ls -ld /sw/src/fink.build/ >>> drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 20 Jun 06:59 /sw/src/fink.build/ >>> >>> so the permission are correct? >>> What else can I do? >>> >> Check your disk space. If your disk isn’t full, try doing a build as root >> (e.g. “fink --no-build-as-nobody build <package>” ). If that works then it >> might be that there is something wrong with the fink-bld user/group which >> normally does our builds. If you you get the same error when building as >> root, we’ll have to diagnose it further. >> —Akh > I get the same error with "--no-build-as-nobody build <package>" > > Thomas > > >
Then it sounds like whatever command creates the control file isn’t behaving properly. I (or somebody else) will have to dig into the fink code when I’ve got a moment to see about a test case. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/ Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners